Camp-stove.



E. W. EHMANN.

CAMP STOVE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 25, 1911.

Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

E. W. EHMANN.

GAMPSTOVE.

APPLIGATION FILED'MAY 25, 1911.

1,054,188. I Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

EDWIN W. EHMANN, 01E OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

CAMP-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1933.

Application filed May 25, 1911. Serial No. 629,319.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN W. EHMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oroville, in the county of Butte and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Camp-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

T he hereinafter described invention relates to an improved stove for outdoor purposes, such as camping, picnicking, automobiling, and prospecting; the object oft-he invention being the production of a stove for the desired purposes, simple of construction, which may be quickly set up and taken apart, capable of being packed within a limited space, easily transported from place to place, and of weight which will permit of the same being carried with ease.

To comprehend the invention reference should be had to the accompanying sheets of drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the stove in assembled position. Fig. 2 is a broken view in side elevation of one of the end bars for supporting the top or grate rods, with one of the corner supporting uprights or legs applied thereto. Fig. 3 is an end view of the parts disclosed by Fig. 2 of the drawings. Fig. 4: is a broken view in side elevation of the intermediate or exten sion cross bar. Figs. 5, 6 and 7, are broken perspective views illustrating the supporting bars for the grate rods, and the positioning of the grate rods relative thereto.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 is used to designate the upright supports or legs for the stove, which are preferably pointed at their lower end for easy placing within the ground. Each supporting upright or leg is formed with a slotted head 2, into the slot 3 of which rest the lower edge portions of the cross bars a, 5, 6, which are cut away at each end portion to provide a seat 7 for permitting the cross bars to straddle the upper end portions of the supporting uprights or legs 1 when fitted within the slot 3 thereof, so as to interlock the said cross bars with the supporting uprights or legs in order to give rigidity to the set up frame structure.

In the upper edges of the end cross bars 4 and 6 respectively a series of cut cuts are formed to provide the seats 8 and 8, while in the upper edge of the intermediate cross bar a plurality of double cut outs are formed to provide double seats 9 and 9 into spaced grate rods 10 are supported by the cross bars 5 and 6, while the second series of the parallel spaced grate rods 10 are sup ported by the cross bars 4: and 5, Fig. 1 of the'drawings.

By providing the intermediate or exten sion cross bar 5 with the double seats 9 and 9, the grate rods 10 and 10' may be fitted therein to register respectively with the seats Sand 8 of the end cross bars 4: and 6. However, any suitable arrangement of seats for the reception of the ends of the grate rods may be formed in the intermediate or extension cross bar 5, likewise as to the end cross bars 4 and 6, although preference is given to the form of seats or supports illustrated for the retention of the grate rods.

In assembling the stove, the uprights or supporting legs 1 are driven into the ground a suitable distance apart, a pair for each cross bar, and the cross bars secured thereto by inserting the seat 7 into the slotted heads thereof, so that the said bars will embrace the uprights or supporting legs 1, after which the grate rods 10 and 10' are fitted into the seats in the upper edge of the cross bars provided for their reception, the turned over or flanged ends 11 of the said rods holding the same against longitudinal displacement, while the seats in which they rest serve to maintain the parallel grate rods properly spaced apart.

Inasmuch as the parts are not permanently attached one to the other, the same may be quickly separated for the taking down of the stove and the parts when so separated gathered together as independent pieces and secured in any suitable manner into a coinpact package.

The supporting legs and cross bars when united form what may be treated as the detachable frame of the stove, the top of which comprises a plurality of loosely held parallel spaced grate rods.

The described camp stove may be properly termed a knockdown stove, inasmuch as each of the parts thereof is separable, and when disconnected the parts may be packed within a suitable case for containing the same.

The camp stove is simple of construction, inexpensive as to manufacture, capable of being carried in a compact form, and owing to the lightness of the parts may be easily handled and carried from place to place.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desired to be pr0tected by Letters Patent is- 1. In a stove for outdoor purposes, the same comprising a plurality of supporting legs each provided with a slotted head portion and t e lower ends of said legs adapted for insertion within'the ground, end cross bars and an intermediate cross extension bar adapted to be seated in the slotted head portion of said supporting legs, and a plurality of spaced grate rods removably held to and supported by the said cross bars.

2. A stove for outdoor purposes, the same intense comprisin a luralit of su porting legs each prov%ded iwith a slotted head portion, of cross bars removably seated in said slotted head portions of the legs, and a plurality of spaced grate rods loosely supported by the cross bars.

3. A stove for outdoor purposes, the same comprising a plurality of supporting legs each provided wlth a slotted head portion,

of cross bars each rovided with seats in the lower edge thereo for the reception of the slotted head portions of the legs and a plurality of seats in the upper edge, and a plurality of spaced grate rods loosely held within the upper seats of the cross bars.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of I two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN W. El-IMANN. I

I Witnesses:

F. B. TUHEY, MILDRED P. MARTIN. 

